A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Tina Weymouth

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Calvin Coolidge

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

John Gall

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

John Lothrop Motley

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Samuel Johnson

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.

Steven J. Carroll

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

Mark E. Smith

Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories -- and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.

Kenneth Grahame

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

Jan de Bont

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Vladimir Putin

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

Anton Seidl

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

Ron Wyden